Imaging technology restores 700-year-old sacred Hindu text
Scientists who worked on the Archimedes Palimpsest are using modern imaging technologies to digitally restore a 700-year-old palm-leaf manuscript containing the essence of Hindu philosophy. The...
View ArticleJackson Pollock’s art and fractal analysis
Can mathematics explain the art of Jackson Pollock? Can it be used to authenticate paintings of uncertain provenance? Case Western Reserve University physicists address these questions in the current...
View ArticleEye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work
Source: PhysOrg.com Michael Marmor, MD, wanted to know what it was like to see through the eyes of an artist. Literally. After writing two books on the topic of artists and eye disease, the Stanford...
View Article2007 Visualization Challenge Winners
PHOTOGRAPHY: FIRST PLACE (TIE) What Lies Behind Our Nose? Kai-hung Fung,* Source: Science Magazine Written by Jeff Nesbit, Director, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, NSF Monica Bradford,...
View ArticleInterpol Untwirls a Suspected Pedophile
Source: The New York Times Blogs Written by Mike Nizza The world locked eyes with a suspected pedophile today after a lot of digital photo manipulation and an apparently unprecedented global appeal by...
View ArticlePhotoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals
Photoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals: A Complete Digital Imaging Course for Investigators Written by George Reis Digital imaging technology has been used in forensics since at least 1992, yet...
View ArticleBrain’s wiring seen in Technicolor
Source: Chemistry World Written by John Bonner Researchers in the US have developed a technique that could allow neurologists to draw a detailed wiring plan of the mammalian brain by inserting genes...
View ArticleGrant puts field in the public eye
Source: Detroit Free Press Written by Patricia Ansetett A little-known field of ophthalmology soon will get work space in Ann Arbor that matches the stature a University of Michigan team has achieved....
View ArticleGet Your METACOW Right Here!
METACOW: A Public-Domain, HighResolution, Fully-Digital, Noise-Free, Metameric, Extended-Dynamic-Range, Spectral Test Target for Imaging System Analysis and Simulation Geek Alert: the following would...
View ArticleMath on Display
Visualizations of mathematics create remarkable artwork Source: Science News Written by Julie J. Rehmeyer “Coral Star” shows the motion brought about by one particular dynamical system. By Michael...
View ArticlePeachpit Releases New Scientific Imaging with Photoshop Book
Scientific Imaging with Photoshop: Methods, Measurement, and Output by Jerry Sedgewick Book Description Adobe Photoshop is one of the more powerful tools available to scientists today. It is...
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